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Will Canon allow EF lenses to work on future RF bodies?

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EmotionBlur
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Re: Will Canon allow EF lenses to work on future RF bodies?

Sittatunga wrote:

Having said that, I can't find an instance where Canon have ever licensed the EF lens patents for stills camera lenses; all the third-party manufacturers have had to reverse engineer their lenses. So I'm sure that "something" is one of them managing to produce an RF mount lens that doesn't infringe Canon's patents.

So far, bad luck. Unlike EF mount, it seems that the AF patent can't be bypassed so easily. Rokinon/Samyang had to pull some of their RF mount AF lenses because of that.

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